The worst region is the South West in which just 43% of the PCTs have an executive director with voting rights on the board.
Dr Peter Carter, RCN chief executive and general secretary, said: ‘Nurses spend more time with patients than any other health professional, so it makes sense for them to be a key part of the decisions which impact on the care that patients receive.
‘Nurses are often the first to identify Read more »
The measures are part of a drive to ensure people have access to quality information that will enable them to make informed choices about their overall care.
Patients and health and social care professionals will be able to access quality information through NHS Choices which currently details 13 long-term conditions (asthma, bowel cancer, CKD, COPD, coronary heart disease, depression, dementia, diabetes, heart failure, osteoarthritis, Read more »
Football fans may want to engage in some relaxation techniques or anxiety management prior to the big game.
MedPage Today reports on a study where researchers looked at the 1980 Super Bowl, where the (then) Los Angeles Rams lost to the Pittsburgh Steelers. The game was “high-intensity, [where] the lead changed hands seven times. The game was played in nearby Pasadena, and the Rams had been in Los Angeles for many years. They were also Read more »
When over 55-year-olds were asked what they thought their chances were of acquiring an STI from unprotected sex, 25% believed it was ‘next to nothing’ compared with 13% of 18-24 year olds.
Heidi Wright, head of practice at the RPSGB, said: ‘The majority of safe sex messages are targeted at teenagers, but as more adults begin new relationships later in life, they quite clearly need advice too.’
Almost Read more »
The good news is that most patients, 60 percent in fact, felt appropriately “connected” to their primary care physician.
However, that leaves a significant 40 percent who were not.
According to a recent study, patients who were not connected were less likely to received recommended preventive care and other screening tests.
Which all comes as no surprise. Not only is it increasingly difficult to find a new primary Read more »
The following is a reader take by Edwin Leap.
My kids love to play Monopoly. They delight in acquiring properties, making money and crushing their siblings. They play with passion and savagery. That is, until recently. A couple of weeks ago I walked past the Monopoly board, spread on the floor between my children and their dear friend Tyler.
‘How’s it going guys?’
‘Great game, but we all ran out of money. Read more »
1. NHS trust directors’ pay up 6.4%
NHS trust directors in England received an average pay increase of 6.4% last year, according to new research.
2. DoH ‘may regret’ regulating advanced nurses on the cheap
The government may scrap plans for statutory regulation of advanced nursing roles in favour of a low-cost ‘buyer beware’ scheme, a DoH adviser has said.
3. GMC consults on fitness-to-practise Read more »
Are cash-only medical practices only limited to the wealthy?
When you think about it, how much care does the average patient really need? Over at Better Health, Val Jones writes that 75 percent of patients require an average of 3.5 office visits annually for all the medical care they need. That works out to about 1 hour of a physician’s time per year.
How much is that worth? Well, the going rate is about $300. For a year. Read more »
This is part of Unite’s request for a large school nurse recruitment campaign. It estimated that there are now 6,900 children to every specialist school nurse in England, using NHS workforce statistics.
Due to the cervical cancer immunisation for teenage girls and the government push to have a specialist school nurse for every secondary school and its cluster of primary schools by 2010, there is also concern about the increasing Read more »
Dissecting a human body is messy, smelly, and expensive.
In fact, more medical schools are resorting to so-called “virtual” gross anatomy, using sophisticated imaging and computer programs.
This is a mistake, says psychiatry resident Christine Montross, in a NY Times op-ed. And she has a point.
“Someday, [doctors] need to keep their cool when a baby is lodged wrong in a mother’s birth canal; when a bone breaks Read more »
